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Updated on: Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Wadhwani Foundation and TeamLease through their subsidiary Indian Institute of Job Training (IIJT) jointly announced an initiative to train and recruit about 2000 People with Disabilities (PwDs) across the country.

The two-year initiative is an intensive advocacy and job placement campaign to enable companies to recruit and place the maximum number of young adults with disabilities. The joint effort aiming to influence the employability quotient of the differently abled population in the mainstream jobs of the organised sector will kick off on World Disability Day on December 3.

Wadhwani Foundation will fund part of the interested candidate’s fees to undertake skill development training and courses across 120 IIJT centres in the country.

Sharing his views on this campaign, Ajay Kela, president and CEO of Wadhwani Foundation said, “India has a very unique talent pool of an estimated two to three million educated disabled. Corporate India could derive better business value in terms of higher productivity, reduced attrition and lowered retraining costs by employing this proven and tenacious but generally ignored talent pool.”

IIJT would impart training to PwDs on a specially designed curriculum which will help the candidates to find jobs in the areas of customer handling/ relations. The course curriculum is structured in a way that the candidates are trained to match the job profiles and deliver organisation oriented output.

Candidates will also have an opportunity to assess themselves through an assessment test which would gauge their employability quotient. After the assessment test candidates would be counselled on planning their career to pick the right course suiting their skill sets.

The courses being offered as part of the training curriculum are:
1.       Basics of Accounting & Tally 9 ERP (Mod 1 to Mod 3 of CBA) leading to entry level accounting jobs
2.       Non-Voice Data Processing leading to BPO jobs
3.       Voice Processing leading to BPO jobs
4.       Data entry operators leading to data entry jobs

In this program, TeamLease-IIJT plans to train 500 physically disabled youth between the age group of 18 to 30 in the next one year and scale it up to 2000 in the next year.

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